Quoting RTLSNK:The little ones were supposed to come over here for dinner tonight but the Son In Law and little Hulk both came down with a bad high fever today. They were over here for dinner last night and for a family conference about another family trip to DisneyWorld in Feb.

SugarBear and I are hoping that we didn't catch whatever they have. You are usually contagious the day before the fever hits you. :(

Hmmm..I would overdose on vitamin C tonight and tomorrow, if I wuz yer.Good Luck.

Quoting RobDaHood:So, tonight, thunderstorms, just before 0-dark-thirty.Cooled things down considerably on the deck.

Have spent the evening watching a young great horned owl hunt the back yard under the moonlight.

Think he must be eating bull frogs.

Have had a mated pair hanging around the last couple years. Watched their courtship, Angie actually saw them "in the act".

Maybe this guy is the result.

Anyway, pretty cool.

Just have to make sure the cat doesn't get out at night.

Nice !Spent the late afternoon with Lady Pott on the deck upstairs, watching the 2 squiggly's leap about in a PommeRose tree.It was a challenge getting them to come down as the sun set, and as the Owl started his Hooo in the trees not far away.But all ended well.

The little ones were supposed to come over here for dinner tonight but the Son In Law and little Hulk both came down with a bad high fever today. They were over here for dinner last night and for a family conference about another family trip to DisneyWorld in Feb.

SugarBear and I are hoping that we didn't catch whatever they have. You are usually contagious the day before the fever hits you. :(

Quoting RTLSNK:Project completion is a wonderful thing. I wish I could see the end of my projects. Alas, my honeydo list has undergone many revisions in the last week. I now have more plant removal and transplant projects than I had on Monday. It seems that with the purchase of several new plant and flower and shrub and odd grass looking thingies that a complete revision of the garden locations had to be changed, altered, re-done, and re-designed due to color, size, and growth potential of the new thingies. You understood all of that didn't you? Of course you did.

Todays mission is to dig up and destroy two large thingies, dig up and move three other large thingies to other gardens, fill in the holes in the gardens caused by digging up the eight thingies I dug up this week so that SugarBear can plant the sixteen new little thingies that she purchased this week. Yes, I know sixteen is more than eight, but remember that the eight thingies were huge and the sixteen new thingies are small. What the sixteen thingies will become is not my problem. Yet. Check with me next fall when the annual removal process begins again.

63*F in Macon this morning. Very nice for digging.:)

Yes indeed!Project completion is Grand.

But please don't misunderstand....

My completed project was merely a sub-project, an add-on to the List, and thrown at me by Fate and the Alignment of Dust Particles orbiting the noxious Planet Urg in a far-distant galactic firmament surrounded by bottomless black voids that suck energy from living cells, replacing the resulting absent-minded spaces with a sticky goo of non-matter akin to treacle wot has been previously digested by toothless undead zombies and the like as you've never seen before, presently, or in the distant future, regardless of how many times you look under your bed knowing, KNOWING that they are THERE anyway, irregardless of that little voice that sits on your shoulder saying 'it's OK' because all along you KNEW that it was your Doom, your Fate, your Dismal Destiny, and if you've read this far you know that I have completely lost my direction...

Sorry to hear you are having knee problems again,or is it still? I thought you had that one done lastyear. Or is it the other one? Thats the problem with having two of them, you get one fixed, the other one goes bad.

The new titanium knee is doing fine now. The other oneis beginning to be a pain in the ......knee. :)

Quoting RTLSNK:Project completion is a wonderful thing. I wish I could see the end of my projects. Alas, my honeydo list has undergone many revisions in the last week. I now have more plant removal and transplant projects than I had on Monday. It seems that with the purchase of several new plant and flower and shrub and odd grass looking thingies that a complete revision of the garden locations had to be changed, altered, re-done, and re-designed due to color, size, and growth potential of the new thingies. You understood all of that didn't you? Of course you did.

Todays mission is to dig up and destroy two large thingies, dig up and move three other large thingies to other gardens, fill in the holes in the gardens caused by digging up the eight thingies I dug up this week so that SugarBear can plant the sixteen new little thingies that she purchased this week. Yes, I know sixteen is more than eight, but remember that the eight thingies were huge and the sixteen new thingies are small. What the sixteen thingies will become is not my problem. Yet. Check with me next fall when the annual removal process begins again.

63*F in Macon this morning. Very nice for digging.:)

LOL :)

Why would you want to know what day you will die, "and hopefully", this far in advance???

Have a fun day.I'm polishing the boat today...and the music is grand.:)))

Project completion is a wonderful thing. I wish I could see the end of my projects. Alas, my honeydo list has undergone many revisions in the last week. I now have more plant removal and transplant projects than I had on Monday. It seems that with the purchase of several new plant and flower and shrub and odd grass looking thingies that a complete revision of the garden locations had to be changed, altered, re-done, and re-designed due to color, size, and growth potential of the new thingies. You understood all of that didn't you? Of course you did.

Todays mission is to dig up and destroy two large thingies, dig up and move three other large thingies to other gardens, fill in the holes in the gardens caused by digging up the eight thingies I dug up this week so that SugarBear can plant the sixteen new little thingies that she purchased this week. Yes, I know sixteen is more than eight, but remember that the eight thingies were huge and the sixteen new thingies are small. What the sixteen thingies will become is not my problem. Yet. Check with me next fall when the annual removal process begins again.

Today I managed to complete the Wall/Ceiling/Floor thingy. Total area 408 sq.ft.With Sterling Input from Dylan, who has been my Able Assistant for 2 weeks. (he is NOT the one who screwed his finger to the wall...)

Anyway, all I have to do now is install a 1X3 strip around the perimeter of the floor area, and I'll do that on Monday.

Someone else will paint the thing. Probably tomorrow, so they can use it to photograph stuff and whatnot to their heart's content.

Quoting RobDaHood on Masshysteria's blogsite:Still stuck in summer here.Hot and rainy.Looks like your high temp today will be our low tonight.

Hope you are having a good day and enjoying the mild temps!

Good Mornin', Rob!

Taking a break to say hello during a gloriously sunny cool fall autumn morning here in Mass. The trees have begun to show increasing tinges of color week by week and our oak trees are spewing acorns by the droves. LOL! Naturally, this will present more chores in the weeks ahead, but it's nice to be outside amongst the colorful scenery and breathing in the fresh autumn air.

My hubby seems to be doing reasonably well now and is pacing himself while getting back to more physical activity. Right now, his favorite is napping in our Florida room off of the kitchen. (The sun streaming through its closed window slats feels so good on the ole bones!) LOL! Nothing beats the free warm solar power currently provided and will be sorely missed once another usually cold New England winter arrives.

Hope you and yours are doing well and are able to enjoy, at least, the warmth your current Floridan weather provides plus a mild winter.

Tomorrow, with Good Fortune, Alacrity, Stealth, Physical Whatnot and Major Stuff, I will complete The Wall. (which actually includes the ceiling and the floor)

I should have known, from the outset, that Ashley was going to be more trouble than she was worth....Hood tried to warn me.But, I was led astray, down the garden path, up the creek, beyond the boundary, out of left field, hook, line and swivel.

Isn't it strange, when working with perfectly square pcs. of hardboard which are 4'X8', that a 16th of an inch out over there, results in a complete inch out, over here?And besides that, curves are no fun at all.Unless they are Pretty Curves on Pretty Girls, of course.Goes without saying, does it not ?

I tried to watch the video, but it stopped at 13 seconds, 32 seconds, 43 seconds, 50 seconds, and then 58 seconds. At that rate it would take me an hour to see the entire video. LOL

Had a day just like that, it must be catching.

Shep, I raised a little calf my senior year of high school at the farm I was helping out at. They were friends of my folks and their kids had all moved to other places and the Mrs. had fallen and hurt her leg so I stayed out there for six months to help.

Little guy would follow me around like a puppy every where I went to do chores. I left the gate open one day without knowing it and as I came into the kitchen for breakfast the old man said "You left the gate open", I said how do you know that? He just pointed behind me and as I turned around I saw the calf had stuck his head right thru the back screen door trying to follow me into the house! LOL

Had to take him back to the barn, close the gate, and fix the screen door before breakfast. Learned that lesson well. :)

53*F in Macon this morning, clear skies, no rain in the near future. Makes for nice weather working in the yard and gardens. Have three large plant thingies to remove from the gardens today, they were supposed to be little plants but turned out to be giant plants. Sugar Bear says they are detrimental to the ambience of her garden design. Right.

Anotherwords, you want me to cut off their little arms and legs with a clippers, dig their roots up with a sharp bladed shovel, cut their tap root with a saw where it is attached to the earth, and throw the parts on the fire and burn the hell out of them until they are charcoal.

Honey, she said, their just plants, not aliens.You've been watching too many movies. :)

Looks to have moved on, and some dry ones ahead.August was half the long-term average.Some real torrential stuff from time to time caused floods and problems, but overall it's been drier than usual.Sept is low too, so far.The ITCZ looks to have gone.....